Prof. Ofer Lahav

Perren Chair of Astronomy, Astrophysics Group, University College London

Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS), UCL

Chair of the Science Committee, the Dark Energy Survey

Principal Investigator, Advanced European Research Council Grant ("TESTDE" Project)

Postal address:	Department of Physics and Astronomy
	University College London
	Gower Street
	London WC1E 6BT
	United Kingdom
Telephone:	+44 (0)20 7679 3473
e-mail:	o.lahav AT ucl.ac.uk
Office location:	Room G08, Ground floor, Kathleen Lonsdale Building

CV

Publications (PDF)

Publications (via ADS)

Review Articles

Research Topics

Collaborative Projects

Presentations

Software Packages

Media

Collaborative projects

The Dark Energy Survey	2dF
Survey of 300,000,000 galaxies to study the nature of Dark Energy	Galaxy redshift survey of 230,000 galaxies (completed)
(chair of the international DES Science Committee and chair of DES:UK Board)
HST CLASH	6dF
Hubble Space Telescope imaging survey of galaxy clusters	Redshift survey of 2MASS selected galaxies (completed)
Euclid
Space mission - ESA's Cosmic Vision

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Reviews & Popular Articles

"Dark Energy: Back to Newton?" Calder, L. & Lahav,O., A&G, Feb 2008 issue (revised version)

"Dark Energy: how the paradigm shifted" Calder, L. & Lahav, O., Physics World, Jan 2010 issue

"Neutrino mass from Cosmology" Lahav, O. & Thomas, S.A., 2011 - Invited Chapter in `Adventures in Cosmology' (ed. D. Goodstein), World Scientific Publishing

"Let There Be Darkness, Let There Be Light" Lahav, O., Odyssey magazine (in Hebrew), Jan 2010 issue, pg. 38

"Climbing up the cosmic ladder" Lahav, O., 2009, Invited News & Views article in Nature, 459, 650

"The Cosmological Parameters 2010" Lahav, O. & Liddle, A.R., 2010 - Invited review, in "The Review of Particle Physics" (Particle Data Group)

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Software Packages

ANNz: Photometric redshifts using Artificial Neural Networks (Collister & Lahav 2004)

ExoFit: Orbital parameters of extra-solar planets from radial velocities using Bayesian MCMC (Balan & Lahav 2008)

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Media

UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Light and Darkness in the Accelerating Universe:	TateShots: Artist Katie Paterson talks to Ofer Lahav about the mysteries of the universe:

Interview to the Economist (February 2012)